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A_4_26 — Aztec Codices: Borgia Group and Mesoamerican Ritual Manuscripts
The Aztec codices — particularly the Borgia Group — are a set of pre-Columbian and early colonial-period painted manuscripts from central Mexico, produced on deerskin or bark paper (amatl) in screenfold format. The Borgi
A_4_19 — Maya Codices: Dresden, Madrid, and Paris Manuscripts
The Maya codices are the only surviving pre-Columbian books from the Maya civilization — folding-screen manuscripts made of bark paper (huun) covered in lime plaster and painted with hieroglyphic texts and illustrations
H_1_02 — Burning of Maya Codices and Mesoamerican Knowledge Destruction
The systematic destruction of Maya manuscripts represents one of history's most devastating losses of accumulated knowledge. Bishop Diego de Landa's 1562 auto-da-fé at Maní destroyed thousands of Maya texts, leaving only
M_4_04 — Library Destructions and Lost Knowledge Catalogs
The deliberate or accidental destruction of libraries and knowledge repositories is one of humanity's recurring tragedies. From the Library of Alexandria (whose gradual destruction eliminated perhaps 400,000–700,000 scro
A_2_02 — Nag Hammadi & Gnostic Texts
The Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of 13 leather-bound papyrus codices containing 52 texts, discovered in 1945 near Nag Hammadi, Upper Egypt. Written in Coptic and dated to the 3rd–4th centuries CE (with originals p
W_4_13 — Aztec Empire: Tenochtitlan, Sacrifice, and Cosmovision
The Aztec Empire — more precisely the Mexica-led Triple Alliance (c. 1428–1521 CE) of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan — was the dominant political and military power in Mesoamerica at the time of the Spanish arrival.
H_1_04 — Ancient Libraries — Destruction and Knowledge Loss
Throughout human history, major repositories of knowledge have been destroyed by fire, war, religious persecution, conquest, and deliberate suppression — resulting in incalculable losses to the accumulated learning of an
ZG_1_14 — Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Zapotec, Mixtec, and Aztec Codices
Beyond the celebrated Maya script (the only fully developed logosyllabic writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas), Mesoamerica produced a remarkable diversity of writing and recording systems that ranged from the ea
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